A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.